Meet the editor

Giuseppe Lo Giudice obtained an MD from the University of Messina, Italy and completed an ophthalmological residency at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padua, Italy. He was a fellow at the Ophthalmology Department of the Gironcoli Ophthalmic Center from 2002 to 2004, and an assistant in ophthalmology at Conegliano Hospital Conegliano, Treviso, Italy from 2004 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been a surgeon and

vice-director at San Antonio Hospital, University of Padua, Italy. His major fields of interest are treatments for retinal diseases (proliferative retinopathies, AMD, and diabetic retinopathy) and vitreoretinal surgery. He has more than 25 years of experience in clinical research as well as in clinical trials and laboratory research. He has performed more than 10,000 anterior segment surgeries (cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, corneal transplantation) in the last five years. He has also performed more than 700 vitreo-retinal surgeries for ocular trauma, complicated cataracts, retinal pucker, retinal detachment, and vitreoretinal proliferative disease in the last two years at Saint Antonio Hospital. Dr. Lo Giudice has authored two books and edited two book chapters. He has contributed several research articles and book chapters in national and international books and serves as a reviewer for many ophthalmology journals.

Contents

**Section 1**

Surgical Interventions in Ocular Diseases

Keratoconus: A Treatable Disease

*and Agostino Salvatore Vaiano*

*and Juliana Tamayo*

**Section 2**

**Preface XI**

Anterior Segment: Cornea, Glaucoma and Trauma **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 77**

Posterior Segment: Macular Pucker **105**

**Chapter 6 107**

*by Gustavo E. Tamayo, Eduardo J. Polania-Baron, Claudia Castell, Pilar Vargas* 

*by Hariprasad Vokuda, Srinivasa, Roopashree Rao and Kinjal H. Porwal*

Childhood Glaucoma and Medical Treatment: An Up to Date

Anterior Segment Trauma: The Fundamentals of Management *by Thanuja Gopal Pradeep and Deepthi Rameshbabu Honniganur*

Peeling of Epiretinal Membrane: Analysis of Prognostic Factors

and Surgical Complications, Impacting Visual Outcome

*by Tatyana Beketova and Gennady Landa*

Evaluation and Management of Ocular Traumas *by Arzu Taskiran Comez and Mehmet Ozbas*

*by Antonio Greco, Marco Giuseppe Leto, Andrea Greco, Riccardo Merli* 

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Preface

Ocular surgery has radically changed over the past ten years with the development of both new techniques and instrumentation, with improvements in surgical machines. Such improvements have advanced new knowledge in managing several ocular diseases. Indications for surgery have expanded dramatically and inoperable conditions have become amenable to surgical treatment. The need for some type of vision correction is very common after ocular surgery. Although vision defects are easy to understand and some are simple to correct, it is not always easy to determine what the patient needs in terms of best-corrected visual acuity following complicated (e.g., retinal surgery, glaucoma surgery, corneal surgery) or not complicated

This book focuses on the current approaches in the medical and surgical treatment of the most diffuse and important ocular diseases. It reports the latest developments in surgery (anterior segment surgery, posterior pole surgery, etc.) for various types of ocular disease, including glaucoma, corneal diseases, and vitreoretinal

In Chapter 1, Vokuda et al. describe several eye diseases causing blindness that can be corrected by various types of eye surgeries. This chapter focuses on procedures

In Chapter 2, Tamayo et al. discuss keratoconus and the diagnostic tools and treat-

In Chapters 4(Thanuja Gopal Pradeep and Deepthi Rameshbabu Honniganur) and 5(Arzu Taskiran Comez and Mehmet Ozbas), the authors describe the fundamentals of managing anterior segment trauma and clinical evaluation with the best

ment options for this disease with a special focus on corneal cross-linking.

In Chapter 3, Greco et al. analyze the potential etiopathogenetic mechanisms involved in pediatric glaucoma and treatment, reviewing the literature and discuss-

In Chapter 6, Beketova and Landa discuss macular pucker, how to approach internal limiting membrane peeling, preoperative clinical factors, imaging charac-

teristics, and postoperative complications of epiretinal membrane peeling.

In Chapter 7, Longqian et al. describe the abnormality related to a defect of vision when it is still developing, which can make the eyes vulnerable to disease. Untreated refractive error and misaligned eyes can harm vision. By finding and treating

Finally, in Chapter 8, Guccione et al. evaluate the reasons for refractive errors after successful penetrating or lamellar transplantation pre-, intra-, and post-operatively. The chapter presents techniques of refractive surgery to correct refractive errors

that can correct visual acuity to near normal and treat eye diseases.

ing the most appropriate therapeutic approaches.

medical and surgical approaches, respectively.

problems early, healthy vision can develop.

eye surgical procedures.

disease.
